Sunday, January 29, 2012

Safari Drums (1953)


Allied Artists
Directed by Ford Beebe
My rating: 1.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Turner Classic Movies)

Sheffield was starting to outgrow his character by this point, the 9th Bomba movie since 1949. Here he is credited as "John" Sheffield instead of the usual "Johnny", a subtle acknowledgment of that very fact. This time around, a Hollywood crew is in Africa to get film of animals in action. Bomba reluctantly agrees to help after hearing that one of them is a murderer and the police are on the way to make an arrest. Unfortunately that leaves plenty of time to kill a few animals for the sake of entertainment. I'm not sure the producers of the real film realized that the plot condemns the very film they are making!

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